Norman Spinrad Quotes
What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing?
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
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It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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I'm probably the most negative person around.
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I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
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I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.
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Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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I can scare myself like a pro.
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'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.
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I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.
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I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.
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I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.
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What moral obligation do you have to those who willfully refuse to open their eyes and deem you mad for seeing?
